Category: Residencies

Art as Research

ART AS RESEARCH

Opening Reception Thursday, Sept 25, 5 – 7:30 pm

September 25 – October 24, 2014

Fine Art Gallery, Art & Design Building, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus

Featuring: Greg Bloom with Jenn Stowe (DC), Gareth Branwyn (DC), Riah Buchanan (Los Angeles), Kate Chandler (DC), Edgar Endress (St. Augustine), Paul Farber (Philadelphia), Katie Hargrave (Chattanooga), Robbie Herbst (Los Angeles), Scott Holmquist (Berlin), James Huckenpahler (DC), Pam Jordan (Berlin), Nate Larson (Baltimore), IMAGE: Pedro Lasch (Raleigh-Durham), Jaimes Mayhew (Baltimore), Katie Grace McGowan (Detroit), Anne Elizabeth Moore with Julia Gfröer (Chicago), Susan Morgan (Los Angeles), Heidi Neilson (Brooklyn), H Huong Ngo (Paris), Emmanuel Pratt (Chicago), Ding Ren (Amsterdam), Siobahn Rigg (DC), Steve Rowell (Los Angeles), Tim Schwartz (Los Angeles), Terry Scott (DC), Cassie Thornton (San Francisco), and Jon Winet (Iowa City)

IMAGE: Pedro Lasch

Parallelograms | Steve Rowell

Steve Rowell’s Parallelograms is a film, photography, and mapping project, investigating the geography and architecture of influence, power, and money. The project contextualizes natural, post-natural, and built environments, appropriating methods and tools from geography and geospatial analysis. The project was completed with support from the Gaea Foundation.

Rowell is an artist, curator, and researcher, with a focus on overlapping aspects of technology, perception, and culture. Over the past decade he has been based in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Washington D.C.; currently he is based in Chicago. More here.

Ding Ren | Migrations

Ding Ren’s Migrations examines cross-cultural patterns and phenomena through analog photographic practice. This ongoing archive extends her work around notions of home and migration in relation to geo-cultural impressions and observations.

Ding is a nomadic artist and writer, born in China, who is currently based between Washington, DC and Amsterdam, NL. With a field-driven approach, her practice addresses the tension between the foreign and the familiar through such topics as geography, borders, and place. Her most recent project, Topographic Mindset, has been exhibited at the Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie and Upominki (Rotterdam, NL). Her other work has been presented at the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Yuchengco Museum (Manila, PH), Transformer (Washington, DC) and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. More at www.dingren.net.

Ding will be giving a public presentation of her work Wednesday, November 6th at 1:15 pm, Room 1007, Art & Design Building, George Mason University. Directions.

The Case for Space

April 11-May 4, 2013

The aspiration of outer space defines our relationship to other realms as an ethos, aesthetics, and ecology. This residency considers the role that space programs play in cognitive and spiritual life, social consciousness, and political progress: how the micro and macro cosmos regenerate the potential for space as a ground for identification, relationship, and reflection; how space technologies, tools, and tactics help us explore plateaus of the possible; and how the diversity of cosmic physical orders help us imagine constellations for change here at home.

FELLOWS

Heidi Neilson is an artist working in printmaking. She works on artists’ books and public projects concerning topics such as weather, fake snow, and the debris in earth’s orbit. She has participated in residencies at the Center for Book Arts, I-Park, Visual Studies Workshop, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Kala Art Institute, the Lower East Side Printshop, and Women’s Studio Workshop. She also has exhibits and features in a wide range of places including: the Queens Museum of Art, the International Center for Prints New York, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Islip Art Museum, and The Drawing Center. Her work is included in over 50 museum and university collections. Originally from Oregon, Heidi received a BA in biology from Reed College and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, and she lives and works in New York.

Hương Ngô is an artist and educator, born in Hong Kong, and based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work, often collaborative and performance-based, has been supported by the New Museum, Rhizome, LMCC, The Kitchen, EFA Project Space, Tate Modern, Vox Populi, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Museum in Prague. She is a part of the collective Fantastic Futures, a recent Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow, and has a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her current and upcoming works can be viewed at Smackmellon (Brooklyn), Quartair (The Hague), and with Fantastic Futures at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center (NY), and also through the 2013 iLAB Residency Program.

Cassie Thornton (San Francisco) is currently developing a body of work based on her research about the substance of debt. She began her work when she was a graduate student at California College of the Arts (2010-1012) within the Social Practice Workshop. Her current work engages with the student debt of her peers at CCA as psychological and financial material. Before graduate school she co-developed the Teaching Artist Union (2009 – ongoing) in New York City after five years as an art educator in public schools. She is the founder and co-director for the School of the Future, a 24-hour, one-month intergenerational outdoor free school designed for and by teaching artists. In 2011 she built a house in India with a team of Indian art students, home ‘experts’, and construction workers, who lived in it until it transformed into a home. In the summer of 2013 she began research into the relationship between debt and labor as artist in residence at the labor archives at SF State University.

Katherine Chandler (Washington DC) creates work that transects social theory, art practice, and new media studies. Her work explores how images and sensory information intertwine with ways of making value, highlighting the political-ethical dimensions of how people see, sense and act. Currently, she is working on a project about the United States Military’s “unmanned” systems or drones, as they are more commonly called. A starting point is the word unmanned, which points to ambivalence about what is human (or man?) within the system and what is not. Who or what is this negated being that is becoming increasingly important to local, national, and global politics?

EVENTS

Residency Research Findings, May 3rd, 6pm Brookland Artspace, 3305 Eighth Street N.E., Washington, DC, 20017. RSVP: [email protected]

Republic

October 11- November 3, 2012

The Republic considers the values underpinning deliberative democracy, popular citizenship, public transparency, accountability, polling, and representation during the final month of the 2012 election cycle. Involving residents participating in research, projects, and actions that animate issues surrounding the national election and democratic process. In particular, the project explores movements and systems that mobilize and govern our electorate.

PROJECTS

Robby Herbst (publishing, writing, contemporary art) from Los Angeles, CA researching the psycho-emotional dimensions of participation in democracy along with non-participation of seccesionists and autonomists

Katie Hargrave (audio works, printing, flag-making) from Minneapolis, MN
researching the participatory geography of Americanness, tourist ideas of democracy

Siobhan Rigg (participatory sculpture) from Washington DC
researching amplification, local representation in DC

Riah Buchanan (writing, graphic design, photography) from Los Angeles, CA
researching SuperPacs, money exchange scenarios the history of campaign funding

EVENTS

FOUNDING BOUNDARIES, KATIE HARGRAVE | FRIDAY OCT 26, 6:30PM

Join Katie Hargrave in a dedication ceremony for a new Boundary Stone for the District of Columbia. The new Boundary Stone re-members and re-marks the original Boundary Stones that demarcated the initial borders of the city, prior to retrocession of Virginia’s portion of the District in 1847. The project investigates the languages of memorial, territory, and politics embedded in the District’s founding. Public research will explore geographical power shifts and potential voting rights for the future of the District.

At 6:30pm, meet at the National Airport Metro southern exit near the moving walkways that lead to parking garage B for a short ceremony at the site of the historic Abingdon Plantation and then afterwards travel by Metro as a group for a conversation at the Boundary Stone Public House (116 Rhode Island Ave) around 8pm. RSVP to [email protected]. For directions or questions, call Katie 847-877-9856.

LADDER OF PARTICIPATION, ROBBY HERBST | AN UNDETERMINED TIME NEXT WEEK
Robby Herbst climbs “The Ladder of Participation” alone and with participants on the peripheries of HUD and The Department of Labor. The ladder is clunky and unbalanced, segmented into the rungs described by Sherry Arnstein in her seminal 1969 essay “The Ladder of Citizen Participation”: manipulation, therapy, informing, consultation, placation, partnership, delegated power, citizen participation.

DC SUPERPAC | SIOBAHN RIGG | OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING OCTOBER 28th . . .
No Donations without Representation! District Citizens’ PAC launches its first campaign beginning October 28th. Representatives of the new super PAC will meet with citizens of each of the four quadrants of the city to gather resident’s thoughts on the power of the vote. The campaign will then relay these thoughts to voters in swing districts of swing states. Every donor to the super PAC is entitled to one vote in determining how the funds will be used to advocate for DC voting rights. To participate online, find out where public meetings will take place, or to donate to the PAC, visit onedollaronevote.net.

RE-CONSTITUTION CONVENTION, RIAH BUCHANAN | FRIDAY NOV 2nd 6:30-8:30PM
In order to propose an amendment, Article 5 states that Congress must call a convention if requested by two-thirds of state legislatures. This step has never been taken. The Re-Constitution Convention is a way of modeling intentions for citizen movements that directly affect their future governance.

We invite YOU to attend the first Re-Constitution Convention in Washington DC to propose an amendment, to vote or simply to witness. The convention will be documented through a transcription and video record, and model a nationwide campaign of conventions that will model inspired citizen action in crafting the future of our nation–a call to action to those on college campuses, social justice and citizen rights advocacy groups, progressives and tea-partiers, and political activists of all stripes.

ARTIST TALKS | Monday October 15th 6:30pm

Artist Talks by Provisions research fellows will lay the groundwork for a range of Republic explorations, from the psychology of participatory politics to the geography of American identity. Traditional cocktails will evoke the early days and tastes of the American republic. Space is limited.

Above the Bike Shop* 2503 Champlain St. NW Washington, DC 20009

RSVP required: [email protected]

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY EVENTS | October 18, 2012

12-1pm ARTIST TALKS @ Art/Design Bldg (Rm 2001)

7:30pm-8:30pm WORKSHOPS @ Provisions Library (Rm L001)

BUILDING SLOGANS with Katie Hargrave (MN)
WUNDERKAMMER with Riah Buchanan (LA)
WORLDBUILDING with Siobhan Rigg (DC)
TOUCHY-FEELY with Robby Herbst (LA)

Final Interventions, performances, and actions TBA.

FELLOWS

Riah Buchanan has a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art 2009; Post-Baccalaureate (Graphic Design), Minneapolis College of Art and Design; BA (Psychology), Carleton College. Riah began her career in New York working at R/GA Interactive for corporate clients such as Nike and McDonalds. She chose to leave the corporate world to focus on designing for nonprofit and progressive institutions, beginning with three years at the American Civil Liberties Union. Clients have since included The New York Times, Social Science Research Foundation, Revenue Watch, the U.S. Forest Service and the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation. She has exhibited her work internationally and in Los Angeles, most recently at the Architecture and Design Museum. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Katie Hargrave is a visual artist interested in the production of American identity through politics, history, mythology, and narrative. Her work elevates stories from popular culture, those hidden in the archives, and the everyday conversations from passerby’s and participants. Originally from Chicago, Katie received an MA in Cultural Production from Brandeis University and a MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa.

Robby Herbst is an interdisciplinarian, broadly interested in socio-political formations, behavioral architecture, languages of dissent, and countercultures. His explorations have led him to visual art, writing, group work, independent media, public theory and organizing. He organizes and contributes to the Llano Del Rio Collective’s guides to Los Angeles. He founded and is a former editor of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, an internationally recognized journal and “feral institution”. He is a recipient of a Warhol Foundation Writers Grant. He has contributed to Alan Kaprow: Art As Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; the 2008 California Biennial; Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Creative Time 2008; Fine Print: Alternative Media, P.S.1, New York; NGBK in Berlin; and the Documenta 12 Magazine Project Archive, Kassel Germany. Additionally he’s shown work with Southern Exposure (SF), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), The Art Gallery of Knoxville (TN), LACE (LA), David Patton Los Angeles, Dumbo Arts Center (Brooklyn), Monte Vista Projects (LA), and Machine Project (LA). ldrg.wordress.com

Siobhan Rigg is motivated by her curiosity in social and environmental histories of places and stories. Through planned actions, dialogues and objects that engage audiences, her projects strive to provoke curiosity about sites and subjects of friction, revealing the complex narrative unfolding in the present moment. Her recent work has been presented with the Flux Factory and Proteus Gowanus in New York. She is a 2009 recipient of the Washington DC Arts and Humanities Council artist grant. Currently she is based in Washington, DC.

Copy Rights

January 24- February 16, 2013

The Copy Rights Research Residency investigates individual and collective authorship in the digital age–considering how reproductivity and replication enable free expression, empower creative re-use, and mobilize social justice actions. This residency explores the structure and organization of mass digital communication systems, and examines debates around media policy and rights, and considers the power of shared intellectual property. The underlying projects explore the implications of universal access, connectivity, intellectual property, privacy, regulation, absorption, and dissemination to imagine a vigorous virtual commons of popular information.

TOPICS

TIM SCHWARTZ | Tim Schwartz is working on a project involving the analysis of the US patent database, exploring how new relations between past technologies and new technologies might illuminate changes in how our society views and innovation and intellectual property. As well, Tim is working on new ways to create, copyright, and give back to the public new ideas before they are created by others — in essence trying to circumvent the intellectual property status quo.

GREG BLOOM | Greg Bloom is considering the history of 211 (an official directory of health and human services) from within the rapidly changing landscape of information technology. As part of a broader effort to organize a local ‘open source’ directory for the District of Columbia, he is envisioning a future in which communities can produce and share common knowledge about their own resources.

ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE | Anne Elizabeth Moore is looking into how intellectual property rights were initially gendered, raced, and classed, and how this contributes to labor and wage inequities in cultural production. Put another way, she is researching, through the aid of interns, colleagues, and a wide network of associates throughout the DC area, what may become the ultimate dick joke.

NATE LARSON | Nate Larson is researching and considering interventions for publicly streaming webcams in the DC area while also imagining drone use in the life of a civilian and in urban spaces.

FELLOWS

Nate Larson is a full time faculty member in the photography department at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His work with photographic media, artist books and digital video has been widely shown across the US and featured internationally in Canada, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Australia, the Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, the UK, and Spain. Numerous publications and media outlets have featured his projects, including the New York Times, Utne Reader, Flavorwire, the BBC News Viewfinder, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, Marketplace Tech Report, Art Papers, C Magazine, Exposure, The Washington Post, and Afterimage. His photo works and artist books are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Cleveland Institute of Arts, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Society for Photographic Education.

His current project GEOLOCATION, done in collaboration with Marni Shindelman, tracks GPS coordinates associated with Twitter tweets and pairs the text with a photograph of the originating site to mark the virtual information in the real world. New site-specific work from the series was recently completed for Third Space Gallery in New Brunswick, the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts in California, and the Format International Photography Festival in the UK. His first New York solo exhibition of the project was with United Photo Industries in January 2012. He is currently developing a new site-specific series for the 2012 Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art Commission.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers, author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). She is also a former co-editor and publisher of a now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin. Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has written for N+1, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. Her work with young women in Southeast Asia has been featured in Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, Today’s Chicago Woman, Windy City Times, and Print magazines, and on GritTV, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview. She recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her latest book, Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), looks at independent culture, globalization, and women’s rights in Southeast Asia.

Tim Schwartz St. Louis, MO native, received his BA in Physics from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. In January 2010, he developed a technology to help reunited missing people affected by the earthquake in Haiti and now co-runs an organization dealing with family reunification. In 2011, Schwartz spent four months traveling the country in a mobile research laboratory investigating what is lost as archives become digital.

“[He] makes his playful data mashups into sculptures using retired gadgets… Like a field scientist of the information age, Schwartz filters an overwhelming amount of data through the intuitive logic of old-fashioned tools such as weather gauges, maps, and charts. Taken together, his works constitute a kind of contemporary natural history museum in which we are the subjects being examined.” -Lamar Clarkson, Modern Painters Magazine

Greg Bloom has worked as an organizer in electoral campaigns, death penalty abolition battles, municipal budget fights, labor struggles, a chicken liberation movement, and most recently an internet infrastructure instigation. Greg believes that the best thing an organizer can do is connect people with space, tools, and each other and then get out of the way. He’s currently facilitating the development of a digital justice movement in the District of Columbia.

COUNCIL

Helen Brunner (Media Democracy Fund DC), Sascha Meinrath (VP New America, OTI Director DC), Marvin Ammori (OTI fellow DC), Hasan Elahi (UMD Art DC), Tiffiniy Ying Cheng (Fight for the Future (Center for Rights) Amherst MA), Holmes Wilson (Fight for the Future (Center for Rights) Amherst MA), Michael Bracy (Board, Future of Music Colaition; lobbyist; musician, DC), Casey Smith (Corcoran Art DC), Lynne Constantine (GMU Art DC), Mary El Shammaa (Atty, US Patent Office DC), Gigi Sohn (Public Knowledge DC), Clarissa Ramon (Public Knowledge DC), Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge DC), Lateef Mtima (Professor of Law Howard U DC)

Parks & Passages

In July 2012, PARKS & PASSAGES sent a group of DC-based research fellows–interactive artist Edgar Endress, artist James Huckenpahler, architect Pam Jordan, and scholar Paul Farber–to Berlin to source ideas for re-purposing and re-activating this underground space. Their creative investigations draw from Berlin’s exceptional approach to sustainably re-purposing architecture and infrastructure. This project includes interdisciplinary works from the four research residents, which present possibilities for the tunnels’ activation, while exploring the subliminal architectures, mythical stories, urban destinies, and social futures of these lost spaces and their connected capitals.

The PARKS & PASSAGES exhibit at the Goethe-Institut (September-November 2012) explores the possibilities for redeveloping Dupont Underground, a 75,000 ft.² abandoned streetcar tunnel directly beneath Dupont Circle. Once a streetcar station and tunnel originally built to alleviate Connecticut Ave. traffic through an underground passage, the tunnel closed in 1961 with the cancellation of the streetcar system. This massive subterranean geography is once again under consideration for re-development–this time with a arts and culture mandate and an architectural dream.

EVENTS

(unless noted, all events occur at Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 Seventh Street, NW Washington, DC 20001)

Natural Adaptation, Urban Re-Use: Berlin and Washington DC | Thursday Sept 13 , 6pm Panel + 8pm Opening

Panel Discussion with Martin Pallgen (project developer for interim use of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport), Steve Coleman (director, Washington Parks and People), Lionel Lynch (principal HR&A Advisors) , and Patricia Zingsheim (Associate Director of Revitalization and Design Division, DC Office of Planning,) moderated by Provisions Fellow Paul Farber. The panel deals with transformations from “spaces to places,” in Berlin and DC, exploring issues of ownership, adaptive re-use and community engagement. Leaders in urban planning, development and greening DC discuss how reinvention and re-use relates to the broader life of city space. Martin Pallgan offers lessons, insights and possibilities gleaned from Tempelhof Airport, a once outmoded piece of infrastructure now the largest public park within Berlin city limits. Since 2010, Tempelhof has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and reinvigorated surrounding neighborhoods, broadening the green life of city through adaptive re-use. [email protected]

Creative Research: Methods and Modes | Friday Sept 14, 1-2pm

Parks & Passages research fellows Pam Jordan (architect), Edgar Endress (interactive artist), James Huckenpahler (visual artist), and Paul Farber (scholar), explore research methods with Provisions Research Director and exhibit curator Stephanie Sherman. The researchers will unpack their approaches to observing and synthesizing the sites, sounds, histories and possibilities of unused or re-used spaces in Berlin and DC. Drawing on 2 weeks of intensive research in Berlin, the team returned to DC to consider the Dupont Underground as a site for adaptation and transformation. [email protected]

Metamonument | Tuesday, Sept 18, 6:30-8pm

Provisions Fellow James Huckenpahler reads from his major new work Metamonument, an artist’s dream-book exploring hidden histories and poetics of DC, Dupont, and Berlin. In ten short stories, Huckenpahler synthesizes the strange history, bizarre functions and dysfunctions and potential futures of the defunct trolley car tunnels under Dupont Circle. Fellow researcher Paul Farber writes in his forward to Metamonument, Huckenpahler “mines the temporal and spatial layers of the city for dialogical, imagistic and occasionally tall-taleings of the urban landscape.” These vivid stories and artworks “Berlinize” the Dupont Underground in DC, drawing on both Huckenpahler’s work in Berlin and an encyclopedic knowledge of the district. This DC native offers fantastical futurisms for his hometown that are not to be missed. [email protected]

Urban Interventions | Thursday, Sept 20, 6:30-8pm

Discussion of methods for creative urban intervention to build across communities, with Frauke Hehle (Berlin community organizer,WorkStation), Mark Cooley (professor of Agri-Art at George Mason University), and Edgar Endress (founder Floating Lab Collective and new media professor at George Mason University) [email protected].

DJ ipek ipekçioglu: Rediscovering Berlin |Tuesday Sept 25, 9pm / U Street Music Hall ($5)

DJ ipek ipekçioglu’s electronic music is a journey that leads immediately into a country of radical social change, far beyond the clichés and known pop exports. [email protected]

Wings of Desire | Saturday Oct 27 6-8pm

Ranked among the world’s top films, this classic by renowned German director Wim Wenders earned him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and has spawned theater remakes and an American adaptation, City of Angels. Starring Bruno Ganz, the film follows two angels as they walk the streets of Berlin. Although the angels lend their help to many depressed souls, they find themselves longing to become human in order to experience the joys of life. (German/English/French with English subtitles) [email protected]

Happy Birthday, Berlin! | Saturday Oct 27 8pm- 12am ($20)

Celebrating the 775th anniversary of exciting and modern Berlin with electronic beats by DJs Chris Nitti and Solomon Sanchez. [email protected]

Dupont Underground Tunnel Tours | Weekly on Wednesdays, Lunchtime

Schedule tours directly withhttp://dupontunderground.org to experience the abandoned tunnels for yourself.

PROCESS

Research Residency in Berlin and Washington DC: June 20, 2012–July 20, 2012

This summer, Provisions Library sent an interdisciplinary team of Washington-based artists and researchers to Berlin to study urban transformation in repurposed places such as Spreepark (an abandoned amusement park built by the GDR), Tempelhof Airport (famous for the Candy Bombers supplying Berlin during the Cold War) and KW (a squat turned contemporary exhibition hall). They met Berlin’s artists and activists. gaining insight into what makes Berlin one of the most fascinating creative cities in the world. They returned to Washington with a room full of ideas and contexts to contribute to the redevelopment vision of Dupont Underground, an abandoned streetcar tunnel beneath DC’s Dupont Circle.

Berlin is rife with abandoned structures which have been continually re-formed by social activation and creative revitalization. The Washington team compared
approaches of how historic grounds are turned into new public spaces such as memorials, playgrounds, gardens for organic growth, parks, and places for social experiments and art exhibitions.

Parks & Passages brings a creative dialogue between Washington and Berlin and serves as a point of reference for workshops engaging questions of how Dupont Underground could be a creative catalyst for DC.

PARTICIPANTS

FELLOWS

Paul Farber is a PhD candidate in the Program of American Culture at the University of Michigan and has served as the Doctoral Fellow in the History of African Americans and Germans/Germany at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His dissertation covers representations of the Berlin Wall across American literature and popular culture from 1961–present. He is working with Getty Publications on a book of historic photographs by Magnum photographer Leonard Freed of the 1963 March on Washington to commemorate the March’s upcoming 50th anniversary. He also has recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Criticism on HBO’s series, The Wire. His work on culture has previously appeared in Vibe and on NPR.

Edgar Endress is a George Mason University professor teaching new media and public art. Born in Chile, he has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, most recently in Medellin, Colombia. In 2007, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who develop and present innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art making practices. He received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Creative Capital.

Pam Jordan is a preservation and sustainable design architect based in Washington, DC. Her professional focus is the interaction between natural environments and human built structures, as well as the reinterpretation of heritage sites over time. Her recent restoration projects include the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, and a state courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. Pam has also served as assistant director of architectural studies at Mt. Lykaion, an archaeological excavation of an ancient altar site in Greece. Her independent research and documentation projects have ranged from traditional urban housing in Shanghai to neglected state park sites outside of Philadelphia. She received dual Master’s degrees in Architecture and Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and has missed the active trolleys ever since.

James Huckenpahler is represented in Washington DC by Hemphill Fine Arts and currently serves on the advisory board of Transformer, non-profit, artist-centered organization that connects and promotes emerging artists locally, nationally and internationally. His current work-in-progress, “Skull Rock,” is an illustrated history of the capital city. More here http://www.superluckyland.com/.

CURATORS
Don Russell, Executive Director, Provisions Library
Stephanie Sherman, Director of Research Projects, Provisions Library
Lucy Burnett, Assistant to the Director, Provisions Library

COUNCIL
Wilfried Eckstein, Executive Director, Goethe-Institut
Steve Coleman, President, Washington Parks and People
Lionel Lynch, Principal and Head of DC office, HRA Associates
Shiloh Krupar, Professor, Georgetown University
Stanley Hallett, Architect and Former Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America

INTERNS

Lauren Schick, Madeline Vericker, Stephanie Ma, Andrew Hetrick

PARTNERS

This project is possible thanks to Goethe-Institut Washington, German Historical Institute, Arts Coalition for the Dupont Underground, Kulturpark, Be Berlin, George Mason University School of Art, Andy Warhol Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Open Society Foundation. and Comet Ping Pong.